[ale] They were Giants in those Days

[Bob Toxen]

We used the Dragon book at Berkeley too!

In an upper division class I learned how to write a compiler compiler!

Fun times.

Bob

On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 04:11:44PM -0500, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
> We used the Dragon book in my compilers class
> 
> Pete Hardie
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> On Mon, Jan 5, 2026, 16:00 lollipopman691 via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> > Alfred Aho explains Lex and YACC.  Learning (f)lex and (bison)YACC changed
> > my life, for better or for worse.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ssGOC9m8Nk
> >
> > -- CHS
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